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EFFECT OF MARKET ORIENTATION ON SMALL BUSINESS PERORMANCE IN SMALL TOWN IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPRICAL STUDY ON MALAYSIAN SMALL FIRMS
... small firms. To test the relationships among the variables, data from 53 small firms in the small town of Chunglun at Sintok, Kedah was ...of small firm ...
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Localised assets and small-firms’ technological capabilities, spatial and organizational dynamics
... of small firms. Unlike big firms, SMEs interact intensely with the territory in which they locate, as a sign of their ...the firms, because most of the market perception arises from the inputs ...
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How do small firms from European rural regions learn and innovate?
... big firms, small firms interact intensively with the territory in which they located, as a signal of their ...between small firms and their environmental ...323 firms from the ...
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Learning and innovation in small firms from European rural regions
... The first group of arguments connects the increasing market segmentation to the existence of scale diseconomies in certain activities branches. The second one results from the development of new technologies, more ...
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Learning in small firms across European rural regions, in Panagopoulos
... of small firms, many of them closely linked to both farming and household activities ...many small firms that survives due to choices in very narrow market segments, we argue to be in presence ...
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Determinants of capital structure: New evidence from Portuguese small firms
... We remove financial and insurance firms (due to their specific financial behaviour and uniqueness), and firms without employees or turnover. We remove all entries which show unreasonable values, namely, ...
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Interaction between innovation in small firms and their environments: an exploratory study
... influence the broader socio-economic context in which they operate. Theoretically a two-way flow is established for which regional or local characteristics influence innovation in small firms while the ...
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Small Firms in a Small Country: Managerial Factors, Internationalization and Performance of Slovenian SMEs
... Ruzzier, Antoncic and Konecnik () stated that human resources are significantly differentiating internationalized and non-internationa- lized s. We may further develop this argument by adding that human resources ...
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The Dilemma of Small Business in Mozambique: The Reason to Be is the Reason not to Prosper
... The main problem with many small firms still is the lack of capital and access to credit. Two thirds complain about having missed opportunities because of the lack of funding. On the contrary, the access to ...
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30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions
... by firms most affected by the extensions. Such firms may have a preference towards informal workers which makes the hardening of the worker conditions imposed on their formal labour force component - which ...
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BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev. vol.9 número especial
... in small firms an entrepreneurial vision must be shared effectively among all organizational members in order to bring about a positive effect on performance (Harrison & Leitch, ...a small firm ...
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Do Industrial Clusters Foster Technological Capability: A Comparative Study of Small and Large Scale Firms in Bangalore Machine Tool Cluster
... many small firms produce components to specifications, which hardly involve one or two ...as Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) ...
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The Brazilian credit market for small and medium-sized firms: an adaptive marketing approach
... of firms as a proxy indicator of their sizes. However, because small firms usually count on some level of informality to obtain their revenues, the information contained in their balance sheets is ...
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Access to Long-Term Credit and Productivity of Small and Medium Firms: A Causal Evidence Tiago Cavalcanti Paulo Henrique Vaz
... but firms’ classification changed over time. From 1997 to 2002, all firms with revenues between R$6 millions and R$35 millions were classified as medium firms and they faced the same credit ...
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Composition of small and large firms' business networks in transition economies
... institutions. Small firms will find it difficult to attract financial resources from external sources due to high perceived risk (Singh et ...focal firms grow and become established in the market, ...
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Determinants of default: empirical evidence from portuguese small and medium-sized manufacturing firms
... Relationship lending with long-term commitment and informational monopoly by the lender has some relationship with the so-called Housebanking. Normally small firms have an exclusive outside financier, their ...
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Composition of small and large firms' business networks in transition economies
... to small firms, large firms are more likely to rely on formal business ...when firms are small, firms’ growth often requires additional resources not met by existing informal ...
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Behavioural patterns towards innovation: the case of European rural regions
... the small firm during the last 20 years, Julien (1995) supplies an explanation based on internal and external factors to the ...the small firms and the self ...big firms are not adapted and ...
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Firm behaviour and town size: a comparison between firms in small and medium-sized towns in the Netherlands and Portugal
... In this paper, we look for different behaviour of firms according to a different location, in our case a small or medium-sized town. As this figure shows, an important aspect of the location is the ...
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Culture’s impact on the disclosure of key audit matters
... accounting firms audited the majority of our sample firms’ financial statements (138 out of 140 firms), our positive relationship between auditor’s uncertainty avoidance and the level of disclosure ...
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